MSU latest school to project record student enrollment

EAST LANSING — Enrollment at Michigan State University for the 2013-14 academic year is expected to be about 49,300 students, a record for the school.

The preliminary figures were presented Friday to the school's Board of Trustees. Last year's official enrollment was 48,906. The East Lansing school says it got more than 31,000 applications. The number of incoming freshmen is around 7,845 students.

Roughly 79 percent of the school's students are from Michigan. The official count of enrolled students is to take place later this month.

Thursday, Hope College reported it set an enrollment record for the third consecutive year. The Holland school said in a posting on its website that it has 3,388 students. It's the eighth consecutive year that enrollment has been above 3,200.